Silent Movie Screening: “Drums of Love”

On the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the birth of Dante, the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the UCLA Department of Italian present a screening of D.W. Griffith’s  “Drums of Love”, the 1928 cinematic retelling of the tragic love story of Paolo and Francesca as told in Canto V of Dante’s “Inferno”, with pianist Cliff Retallick providing live musical accompaniment. Special thanks to the Mary Pickford Foundation.